LA County says Manhattan Beach is violating outdoor dining ban
Outdoor dining decks along Highland Avenue, now controlled by the city, attracted bustling business last Friday. Photo The City of Manhattan Beach’s attempt to help local restaurants by repurposing outdoor dining decks into city-controlled, public seating has come under direct fire from Los Angeles County Health Officer Muntu Davis. Davis sent a letter to City Manager Bruce Moe that said the city’s repurposing of the dining decks “violates both the letter and the spirit” of the Safer At Home public health order issued by the County on December 9. Davis said the ban on outdoor dining is an essential part of the effort to limit gatherings. “The current restriction on outdoor dining is needed to further the overall goal of temporarily suspending gatherings of people from different households due to the increasingly widespread community transmission of the COVID-19 infection across our County,” Davis wrote. “All persons who leave their house to obtain essential services must do so while both practicing physical distancing and wearing a face covering or mask whenever they are or can be in contact with or walking near or past others who are non-household members, whether indoors or…
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